Sunday, February 8, 2015

Wisdom
does accumulate—not in a linear arithmetic progression but in a
complex, dynamic system. Each understanding sheds light upon the others
in an interactive living process. Insights that seem unassailable may
suddenly meet passionate doubt, all clarity shattered at the very moment
it is most needed. Then, just as suddenly, wisdom will resurface,
stronger for having vanished, wisdom that now knows of its own
disintegration.